Our giant champion Ahmad Deeb Al Meghani won the men’s discus bronze medal in the athletics competition at the 2014 Asian Games in the South Korean city of Incheon, throwing the discus 61.25m, a personal best, finishing behind Iran’s Ehsan Hadadi (65.11m) and India’s Vikas Gowda (62.58m), while Saudi Arabia’s Sultan Al-Dawoodi finished sixth (58.31m), our champion Rashid Al Dosari seventh (56.79m), Kuwait’s Ali Al-Zankawi ninth (56.57m), Iraq’s Mustafa Kadhim tenth (55.21m), and the UAE’s Saber Al Muhairi 13th and second-to-last (50.05m). Ahmad said after winning the medal that the competition had been extremely tough but that he had been confident he would not leave the competition without a medal, and that came true with his final throw, and he hoped for better fortune in future championships, especially as he is hoping to reach better marks, this already being his personal best
